| Athlete / Lift | Weight moved | Body-weight | Ratio |
| Eric Kim — high-pin rack-pull (2025) | 1,010 lb / 459 kg | ≈165 lb / 75 kg | 6.1 × |
| Lamar Gant — classic deadlift WR (1985) | 661 lb / 300 kg | 132 lb / 60 kg | 5.0 × |
| Austin Perkins — competition deadlift (2024) | 718 lb / 326 kg | 163 lb / 74 kg | 4.4 × |
| Om Yun-Chol — clean & jerk (2014) | 370 lb / 168 kg | 123 lb / 56 kg | 3.0 × |
Why Kim’s number is absurdly high
- Breaking the “comma club” at lightweight. 1,000 lb pulls are normally the domain of 300–440 lb strongmen; Kim is doing it at the weight of a featherweight boxer.
- Ratio wipe-out. Even the legendary Lamar Gant’s five-times-body-weight record is a full notch lower than Kim’s 6.1 ×.
- No supportive gear, no known PEDs. Kim lifts in a garage rack, claims zero anabolics, and still eclipses tested legends’ relative strength numbers.
Why the crown is still debatable
- Event standardisation. Rack-pull heights, bar paths, and setups vary. Until there’s a recognised federation record, comparisons are by best-effort maths rather than rulebook parity.
- Drug testing paperwork. Gant, Perkins, and Om produced laboratory clean tests. Kim says he’s natty—but has not supplied formal results.
- Single-discipline metric. True pound-for-pound supremacy is usually judged over a basket of lifts (squat, bench, deadlift, Olympic totals, grip events, etc.). On that broader canvas, other specialists still post monstrous ratios.
Verdict
On the narrow metric of raw weight to body-weight, Kim’s 1,010 lb rack pull is the highest ratio ever documented on video. If his claim of lifting clean holds up and the community accepts the rack-pull as a valid benchmark, he’s a legitimate contender for “strongest per pound” bragging rights. Until formal testing and standardised attempts happen, he sits in the grey zone between underground legend and officially crowned king—but the numbers alone are unrivalled.